4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plunge \Plunge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plunged}; p. pr & vb n.
{Plunging}.] [OE. ploungen OF plongier F. plonger, fr
(assumed) LL plumbicare fr L. plumbum lead. See {Plumb}.]
1. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is
penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter
quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as to plunge the body
into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used
figuratively; as to plunge a nation into war. ``To plunge
the boy in pleasing sleep.'' --Dryden.
Bound and plunged him into a cell. --Tennyson.
We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I.
Watts.
2. To baptize by immersion.
3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.]
Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.
--Sir T.
Browne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plunge \Plunge\, v. i.
1. To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to
submerge one's self to dive, or to rush in as he
plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as to
plunge into debt.
Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea. --Dryden.
To plunge into guilt of a murther. --Tillotson.
2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently
forward, as a horse does
Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.
--Bp. Hall.
3. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or
other contest; in an extended sense to risk large sums in
hazardous speculations. [Cant]
{Plunging fire} (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an
elevated position.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plunge \Plunge\, n.
1. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap,
rush, or pitch into or as into water; as to take the
water with a plunge.
2. Hence a desperate hazard or act a state of being
submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. [R.]
She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her
husband's murder or accuse her son. --Sir P.
Sidney.
And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, To raise
me from amidst this plunge of sorrows? --Addison.
3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or
violently forward, like an unruly horse.
4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous
speculation. [Cant]
{Plunge bath}, an immersion by plunging; also a large bath
in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
{Plunge}, or {plunging}, {battery} (Elec.), a voltaic battery
so arranged that the plates can be plunged into or
withdrawn from the exciting liquid at pleasure.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
plunge
n 1: a brief swim in water [syn: {dip}]
2: a steep drop
v 1: Thrust or throw into "Immerse yourself in the hot water"
[syn: {immerse}]
2: drop steeply; "the stock market plunged" [syn: {dive}, {plunk}]
3: dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity; "She
plunged at it eagerly"
4: begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She
plunged into a dangerous adventure" [syn: {launch}]
5: cause to be immersed; "The professor plunged his students
into the study of the Italian text" [syn: {immerse}]
6: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn:
{dump}]
7: immerse into a liquid; "dunk the bread into the soup" [syn:
{dunk}, {dip}, {souse}, {douse}]
8: engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his
studies" [syn: {steep}, {immerse}, {engulf}, {engross}, {absorb}]
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